But Tom Brokaw, the network's veteran newsman, seems to have already decided that NBC News shouldn't go. In an interview with Huffington Post Live on Thursday, Brokaw said "no news executive should go in there on an off-the-record session."

This will put Brokaw and NBC News in a difficult position should they decide to attend. And even if they skip, it raises questions over whether or not Brokaw forced their hand.

Earlier this afternoon, POLITICO reached out to Brokaw through NBC News spokespeople to ask why, as someone who has attended off-the-record briefings with government officials in the past, he took issue with this meeting specifically. We have yet to hear back.